Network Design Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Network Design
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Network Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 62 58
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Network Design 2 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.15% 0.93% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.01% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £509 £430 £435
25th Percentile £541 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -16.28%
75th Percentile £653 £469 -
90th Percentile £681 £625 -
South West median daily rate £535 £630 £450
% change year-on-year -15.08% +40.00% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
South West median hourly rate £82.77 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Network Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,058 693 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 77.85% 92.03% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 341 369
10th Percentile £336 £250 £260
25th Percentile £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
South West median daily rate £538 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +6.17% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 151 132
10th Percentile £20.50 £12.82 £44.18
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £62.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £68.75 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%

Network Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Network Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Network Design job vacancy trend in Bristol

Network Design
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Network Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Network Design

Network Design
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Network Design in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Network Design in Bristol

Network Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Network Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Network Design

Network Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
1 1 (50.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk